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Your Intuition About Someone Is Not the Whole Truth
One of the most quietly destructive dynamics in relational work is the pattern of trusting an internal read about another person without ever checking it externally. We call this self-referencing reality confirmation. Here's how it works, how it recruits others into distortion, and a five-step practice for interrupting it.
Christian Pankhurst
On Grief That Arrives Late
I've never been able to feel things in real time. I can hold it together in the moment, stay functional, finish the work. But underneath, things move more slowly than I can see. A reflection on delayed grief, the armour we learn young, and what the first week of the Heart iQ Challenge is opening in me as I sit with the loss of my dear friend Denise.
Christian Pankhurst
What I Saw From Dubai
Last week I flew into Dubai not fully understanding what I was flying into. A conversation with an Iranian friend, a night of missile interceptions over the city, and a slow recognition that the version of the world I'd been carrying was almost completely missing the human texture. A reflection on unity consciousness, the danger of certainty, and what it means to stay open when the world is unraveling.
Christian Pankhurst